VISA COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS
VISA INTELLILINK SPEND MANAGEMENT BROCHURE
Gain visibility, control,
and strategic advantage
with next generation
spend management.
GLOBAL TRENDS FOR
COMMERCIAL CARD PROGRAMS
37%
The planned increase in commercial
card usage over the next 12-18 months
by surveyed global companies.2
+
70%
The number of surveyed companies from
around the world ranking enhanced data
as an extremely or very important feature
of their card programs.3
60%
The number of surveyed companies who
view advanced card technology as a high
priority for increasing spend control.1
58%
The number of surveyed companies who
view advanced card technology as a high
priority for negotiating supplier discounts.1
Robust spend management
is critical to your bottom line.
Effective business management in today’s environment requires on-demand access
to information. Understanding your company’s spending patterns, increasing
control over spend, identifying opportunities for savings, and ensuring corporate
compliance are essential. Gain and sustain competitive advantage with sophisticated
spend management.
Across the world, commercial card usage is on the rise. Companies like yours report
planned increases in their card program volume. The enhanced data made available
by commercial card programs is both an expectation and a requirement for identifying
business opportunities. Companies all around the world deem enhanced data from
their commercial card provider as a key component of their card programs.1
In order to help derive maximum advantage from your commercial card program,
a comprehensive, data-rich, easy-to-use information management solution is critical.
It is available today from your financial institution and Visa.
The next generation of information
management is here.
Introducing Visa IntelliLink Spend Management, an information management tool
developed for the needs of companies of all sizes.
Designed in response to evolving market requirements, Visa IntelliLink Spend
Management replaces the current Visa Information Source and other Visa tools and
adds increased functionality, enhanced access to information and reporting, intuitive
usability, multi-language support and self-sufficient implementation and training.
A powerful solution built for the demands of strategic spend management.
Visa IntelliLink Spend Management is a tool comprised of three core solution sets:
Reporting, Data Services, and Program Support. Together these fulfill the key
information management needs of successful organizations. Visa IntelliLink provides
timely, on-demand information through dashboards, alerts, and interactive reports.
Capable of tracking and reporting data on both local and international levels, the
solution is both simple to learn and easy to use. This new platform of offerings
delivers solutions spanning the needs of small companies and global organizations,
improved user experience and world-class service and support.
Visa IntelliLink
Visa IntelliLink Spend Management combines three core solution sets: Reporting, Data Services, and Program Support
Reporting
Data Services
Program Support
• Statements
• Integration
• Customized Program Management
• Expense Management
• Item Level Detail
• Personalized Attention
• Sourcing
• Data Tracking
• Solution Design
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Visa IntelliLink delivers
unique advantage.
Visa IntelliLink offers distinct advantages to companies seeking a better way to
manage and leverage their spending. This complete reporting and full-featured
expense management solution is integrated into one single platform. It provides
local to global functionality with full language, tax and currency support at the local
level, rolling it all up to a global view for visibility across geographies. Proven in
the marketplace and rolled out globally, Visa IntelliLink Spend Management reporting
offers all the advantages of next generation spend management.
• Easy access to information through dashboards and alerts
• More languages
• More tax support
• Integrated 1099 solution
• Card and non-card transactions
• Company self-sufficiency – self-registration, self-installation, self-training
• Alerts sent directly to your PDA for key reporting criteria
• Single solution reporting and expense management
Unlike many solutions that are primarily card program administrator tools,
Visa IntelliLink Spend Management brings utility to the entire organization.
With features to support finance, audit, travel, procurement, and card program
managers, the solution provides value across the company. It’s backed by Visa,
the leader in global transaction processing—handling more transaction data than
anyone else—more than 1 million transactions a day—in 50 countries.
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Designed to fulfill four key needs.
Visa IntelliLink fulfills the four most important spend management needs
of companies:
Access to Information
• Accessible over the internet, anytime and anywhere
•Email alerts signal key events, such as approvals, availability of reports
or statements, and reaching program thresholds
•Dashboards provide quick snapshots of key information
•Self-service interactive reports accommodating multiple filters, sort options
and drill-down capability answer specific questions
•Tax estimation delivers a view of tax obligations when the information is
not carried through from point of sale
•Exportable reports enable further manipulation and analysis
•Sourcing tool supports analysis of your entire Accounts Payable spend, including
import of non-card activity for a holistic view
Speed and Ease of Use
• Easy to learn, intuitive user interface enables immediate proficiency
•Key features are available with minimal clicks, such as one-click statements
at the close of each statement period, for increased convenience
•Context-sensitive online help provides user information relevant to the specific
feature in use
•Self-paced learning tools accommodate individual user needs and your
company’s roll-out plan
•Streamlined workflow, such as automatic routing of expenses to an employee
manager, provides fast and efficient spend processing
•Scheduled reports are delivered to your homepage for enhanced ease of use
and convenience
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Local to Global Scope
• Users can select from up to 15 languages
•Dual- and multi-currency statements provide a consolidated view of local
and cross-border spend
•Both global rollup and local reporting/expense management are available
in a single solution
• Local tax support includes VAT and GST
•Tax categories are included as part of the coding process for efficient tax reporting
•Address country-specific reporting needs such as AUS FBT, UK VAT evidence,
and US 1099 reporting
Customizable
• Users can select key preferences such as language and alert notifications
•Expense management can be tailored to company travel and entertainment
policies, including compliance triggers, multi-tiered approval workflow, receipt
imaging, additional detail on transactions exceeding compliance thresholds,
mileage calculations, conversion of cash transactions to card currency for
reimbursement, and per diem support
• Requisitions for travel or cash advances
•Direct integration of transaction data delivery to an ERP system, with support of
customized formats, as well third-party applications such as Quicken® and QuickBooks®
• Integration with travel booking
RELEVANT SOLUTIONS FOR ALL YOUR
CARD PROGRAM STAKEHOLDERS
Card Program Managers
• Card accounts listings
• Default coding, review, and approval
Finance Managers
• Predefined and custom financial extracts
• Reconciliation
Procurement
• Sourcing tool across payment types
• Preferred supplier compliance
Travel Managers
• Transaction details
• Travel patterns
Employee Cardholders
• Statements
• Expense reports
Audit
• Tax reports
• Receipt management
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Comprehensive breadth and depth;
full features and functionality.
Visa IntelliLink integrates with the comprehensive suite of Visa business-to-business
payment products across all market segments. It can meet the needs of small
businesses, middle market companies, large corporate multinationals, and government
organizations. Its core products, features, functionality and support services
are designed to meet each sector’s specific requirements as well as select niche
market needs.
Superior data capture and delivery.
World-class global data capture and delivery services provide you access to enhanced
spending data any time, anywhere. Our card program technology enables continuous
monitoring of spend activity and fast response to changing market conditions or
emerging opportunities. View and deliver cardholder transaction and travel data all
around the world.
Transaction
•Daily transaction data available to a market leading ERP solution
Travel
•Enhanced air, rail, and hotel data obtained daily from providers servicing
businesses worldwide
Global
• Global data processing, including multi-byte support, in 50 countries
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End to end integration.
The ability to integrate Visa IntelliLink Spend Management data seamlessly
with other internal or external business applications helps to minimize processing
time and helps to maximize productivity. Integrate card data with your in-house
accounting and General Ledger systems.
Flexible, robust reporting.
Built for accessibility, ease of use, and flexibility, Visa IntelliLink Spend Management
reporting features a user-friendly dashboard and interface, 24/7 availability of
information and real-time access to expense management. Request reports in the
format you require, when and where you want them. Expense management capabilities
meet your individual needs, whether a streamlined basic solution or a fully-featured,
customized configuration built to accommodate your organization’s specific policies—
such as compliance triggers, receipt imaging or gathering additional information on
certain spend from employees and their managers. However you choose to receive
your reports, Visa IntelliLink Spend Management reporting lets you capitalize on
actionable business intelligence provided at your convenience.
World-class service and support.
Count on the strategic, consultative support of Program Support Services and the
library of tools and information it makes available. Visa IntelliLink Spend Management
is backed by complete program support, including comprehensive, ongoing services
for every phase of the product lifecycle. Visa and your financial institution will engage
with you to ensure that your card program is designed to meet your needs, that
administrators are fully trained, that systems are fully operational and that program
performance is continually optimized.
FULL CIRCLE PROGRAM SUPPORT
•24/7 Help Desk and
•Migration Planning
Certified Experts
•Program Configuration
•Comprehensive
Context-Sensitive
Online Help
•Custom Solutions
SUPPORT
CONSULT
•Data Analysis
PROGRAM
SUPPORT
•Self-Registration
and Self-Installation
DEPLOY
EDUCATE
•Self-Paced
Learning Tools
•Quick Start Features
•Intuitive User Interface
•Best Practices
•Webinars
•White Papers
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Capitalize on immediate gains and
future growth.
A multi-phase roll-out accommodates ongoing enhancements.
Visa IntelliLink Spend Management will launch in a multi-phase roll-out over
2009 and 2010. Available now, with robust features and functionality, added
enhancements will become available over time. Features are packaged to support
identified client requirements from small business through multinational clients.
Please contact your account executive to identify the package that is best suited
to support your business.
AVAILABLE AT LAUNCH
INCREMENTAL ENHANCEMENTS
• One-click statements
• Automated set-up
• Automated set-up
• Country-specific tax and
• Interactive reports
• Approval alerts
• Extended transaction detail
• Custom financial extracts
• Quick Start product templates
• Approval thresholds
• Standard report templates
• Expense approval workflow
• Default coding on expenses
•Daily transaction data delivered
socio-economic reporting support
• Additional language support
• Report availability alerts
• Automated migration tools
• Self-paced training tools
• File tracking
• Multi-national rollup reporting
• Self-registration
• Program dashboard
• Compliance alerts
to any ERP solution
• Enrollment status reports
• Multi-byte capability
•Dual- and multi-currency statements
• HR integration
• Multi-language support
• Sourcing analytics
• Visa and non-Visa transactions
• Custom approval routing
• Receipt imaging
Implementation is fast and efficient.
Whether a new installation or upgrade, the Visa IntelliLink Spend Management
implementation process is designed for speed and efficiency. Visa and your
financial institution will partner with you in a step-by-step deployment process,
ensuring that your data is ported to the application, your program administrators
completely trained, and the system fully operational.
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Learn more.
Gain increased visibility, enhanced control, strategic intelligence, and competitive
advantage for your organization. To learn more about Visa IntelliLink and
how it can benefit your organization, contact your commercial banker or visit
visa.com/commercial today.
About Visa Inc.: Visa Inc. operates the world’s largest retail electronics payments network providing
processing services and payment product platforms. This includes consumer credit, debit, prepaid and
commercial payments, which are offered under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink and PLUS brands. Visa
enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world, and Visa/PLUS is one of the world’s largest global
ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in more than 170 countries. For more information,
visit corporate.visa.com.
1Visa RPMG Purchasing Card Benchmark Survey, 2007
2Visa Global Cash Management Survey, 2008
3Visa Usage and Attitudes Study, 2009
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